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The Hortsts' Review 



Decbmbbb 28, 1916. 



WASHINGTON, D. 0. 



The Holiday Market. 



The florists of Washington have com- 

 pleted the most successful lioliday busi- 

 ness in trade history — Christmas, 1916, 

 has proved to be a record-breaker. 

 Everything sold well, with red flowers 

 in all varieties leading. Prices gener- 

 ally were good and roses ranged from 

 $8 to $30 per hundred, and twice the lat- 

 ter price was paid for a few exception- 

 ally fine Mock and Radiance roses. 



The notable feature of the business 

 was the marked scarcity of holly. The 

 market has always been flooded with 

 holly and Christmas greens, but this 

 year proved an exception. Crowfoot 

 wreathing was much in demand at from 

 5 to 8 cents. Christmas trees were high- 

 priced and not overplentiful. 



Carnations cleaned up well at from $8 

 to $15 per hundred, and there were just 

 about enough sweet peas to go around 

 at $3 per hundred. Violets were plenti- 

 ful at $1.50 per hundred, but the demand 

 was slow. Mignonette now is quite 

 good and there is a fair sale for this 

 flower for table decorations. Narcissi 

 are more plentiful and in fair demand. 

 Easter lilies have been selling better 

 since the passing of chrysanthemums. 



There was an exceptionally heavy de- 

 mand for potted plants. The sale of 

 poinsettias was good. Other ready sell- 

 ers were the potted yellow daisies of 

 the New England type, which brought 

 from 50 cents to $3 each. Azaleas 

 were scarce, although one house man- 

 aged to bring in about 1,000 plants at 

 the last moment. It is said that the 

 cyclamens and begonias were as fine as 

 have ever been seen here. 



Various Notes. 



Adolph Gude, of the Gude Bros. Co., 

 who looks after the greenhouse end of 

 the business, struck the holidays just 

 right by bringing in something like 12,- 

 000 Richmond roses, of as good a quality 

 as one could desire. This enabled his 

 firm, when other roses were running 

 short, to supply these on all orders for 

 mixed roses when the orders were for 

 from $3 to $10. 



The Washington Floral Co. is trying 

 out Anemone coronaria and Ranunculus 

 Turban. Mr. Loose states that apparent- 

 ly these are not good for forcing, as 

 fully seventy-five per cent rotted be- 

 fore bearing. The remainder are fair 

 and he has commenced cutting. The 

 Washington public does not go strong on 

 novelties. 



John H. Small, Jr., and William F. 

 Gude have been selected by Chairman 

 Robert Harper for several places on the 

 various inaugural committees. These 

 two florists will play a prominent part 

 in the ceremonies incident to inducting 

 the President into office March 4. 



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